Video: Deerhoof: "Jagged Fruit"

Earlier today, Pitchfork.tv premiered Deerhoof's video for "Jagged Fruit", from the band's latest album Offend Maggie. Trevor Shimizu, who did the cover art for the band's album The Runners Four, directed the clip. In a statement, he had this to say about it: "It's a sad, sad song. It just made me think of sad and nostalgic things, so I thought it might be better if I made the video with a different song in mind, like for the teenage girl pop group モーニング娘。The stuffed animal scene was as far as I got, but in the end, I pretty much stayed away from nostalgia and suicide."

Indeed, the resulting video has basically nothing to do with frothy Japanese pop. Instead, it's a hectic pileup of cut-up VHS insanity and night-vision creepiness, along with a few shots of a pretty girl rubbing food all over her face. There's also a 20-second stretch in the middle where the screen goes entirely blank except for the words "sorry, i ran out of ideas." You've been warned.